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Show DAILY Sunday, February 17, 2008 B9 HERALD Gas drilling proposal conviction creates immigration tangle Refugee's threatens Anasazi ruins Former UVSC student can't be deported back to Ethiopia of Nine Mile Canyon Utah Valley State College student indefinitely in the hands An Ethiopian PROVO of U.S. immigration officials, Yohannes's attorney Richard refugee's conviction on crimiGale said. An immigration renal charges could leave him card belonging to another person unless they intended to view is expected, he said. permanently in the hands of U.S. immigration officials. use it. Sentencing on the felony After deliberating less than The conviction tangles his charges, which carry a pens status as a legal permanent two hours, a jury found alty of up to five years in the is in state prison, is set for March. Chane Yohannes guilty on resident. The e feloOrem police first arrested the U.S. on asylum and can't Friday of a Yohannes in June 2007 afreturn to his native country. ny for taking his roommate's That could leave the former ter his roommates said he ATM card. THE of recreationalists, landowners, ranchers, government SALT LAKE QTY A agencies, scientists and others Denver company's proposal to isnt necessarily opposed to drill wells on the West Tava-put- s drilling, Tanner said. Plateau could threaten "We understand that the Anasazi ruins in Utah's natural gas is one of the finest Nine Mile Canyon things you can have in your More than 10,000 known household,-- he said. But full Indian rock-ar- t images are industrial development of the in the eastern Utah canyon, canyon would be "an ugly which actually stretches 50 mess." miles between Myton and ; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wellington. The Bill Barrett Corp. wants to drill some 800 gas wells across the Stone Cabin and Peters Point gas fields, operating r. watched violent video games and had acquired an arsenal of semiautomatic weapons. In January, a judge dismissed a case that alleged Yohannes has provided false information when purchasing firearms. The judge said purchasing forms were too vague. The Utah attorney general's office will hear an appeal of the dismissal at the request of prosecutors who disagreed with the judge's ruling. The card was never used, but the jury agreed with Utah County prosecutors who said no one would have a debit ASSOCIATED PRESS Kid-du- third-degre- ' year-roun- Leases on the land held by the company give it the right to explore and develop at least one well for each parcel officials at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management said. The company estimates drilling would yield about 1 trillion cubic feet of gas over about three decades. Conservationists call the proposal a death blow for the canyon. "This project, if approved, if implemented, will be the death blow for Nine Mile Canyon, for the cultural sites there and for the wilderness-qualitareas there," said Steve Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance attorney. "You just can't have the intensive development Barrett is proposing and protect those resources." A draft environmental impact study of the company's plan from the BLM said the proposal poses a risk to wildlife, air quality and scenery. Each proposed well location, pipeline and access road will get separate evaluations based on "ground truth" from e surveys by biologists, archaeologists and other resource specialists, said Brad Higdon, planning and environmental coordinator in the j L m n y JL Save up to 50. Limited time only. on-sit- Mile Canyon Coalition. The coalition comprised K '. BLM Price field office. Development of the West Tavaputs plateau took off about five years ago. In 2002 there were just seven wells. Now about 100 wells dot the plateau that spans Carbon and Duschesne counties. A proposal for another 1,500 wells is also in the works. BLM officials acknowledge that the road across the plateau wasn't built for the kind of traffic it gets and that the magnesium chloride sprayed to help tamp down dust and gravel clings to the adjacent rocks. The harsh chemical can eat through concrete and through the canyon walls, destroying the irreplaceable ancient art. A full archaeological survey of the canyon has never been done, so just how much art is at risk from further development is not known, said Steve Tanner, a member of the Nine rr-- . Rock on! ' Jf Exclusive Verizon Wireless music phone after rebate mail-i- n rebate. With new activation. U Irr", r t. J Show your style! Gleam F- 7 1 III 1 W-.w- LI I , price -- $50 $149.99 rebate. With new activation. mail-i- n after rebate . i by Samsung 5QG99 i 'Ml CI: m & iji3 lil L 'Z1 - I, Txt your thumbs off! 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